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to the six cosmic regions — north, west, south, east, zenith, and nadir. 

 There are also medicmes b(^longillg to the hummmgbu-d and others 

 of the feathered kmgdom.^ 



The phints herem noted are probably only a portion of those 

 employed by the Zuui, and it is probable also that the medicinal 

 plants may be used in the treatment of a greater number of diseases 

 than it has been possible to determme even after a long period of 

 close study. This memoir is presented as preliminaiy therefore to 

 more extended comparative erthnobotanical researches among the 

 Pueblo tribes of the Southwest. 



The wi'iter is pleased to make acknowledgment to the following 

 gentlemen for courtesies extended during the preparation of -this 

 paper: Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist-iii-charge of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnolog}'; Mr. W. H. Holmes, head curator of anthro- 

 pology, United States National Museum; Dr. Walter Hough, curator 

 of ethnology, United States National Museum; Dr. Frederick V. 

 Coville, cm'ator. United States National Herbarium; Dr. J. N. Rose, 

 associate curator, division of plants, United States National Museum; 

 Ml". Paul C. Standley, assistant curator, division of plants, United 

 States National Museum (who kindly furnished a complete classifica- 

 tion of the plants mentioned in the paper); Mr. E. S. Steele, editorial 

 assistant, division of plants, United States National Museum; Dr. 

 Rodney H. True, in charge of drug-plant investigation, Department 

 of Agriculture; Miss Alice Henkel, assistant in drug-jjlant investiga- 

 tion. Department of Agriculture; Dr. George TuUy Vaughan and 

 Dr. Henry Krogstad, of Washmgton; and Mr. John P. Harrington, 

 of the School of American Archaeology, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

 The writer desires to express her indebtedness also to her Zuni 

 friends, especially the late Nai'uchi, elder-brother Bow-Priest, and 

 the most renowned medicme-man of his time, if not of any period, 

 among his people; his son, Halian, an associate rain priest; the high 

 priest, also a prominent medicine-man, and his son Hun'ki, the two 

 being members of the medicine order of the Galaxy fraternity, one 

 of the origmal organizations of the Zuili; Cant'ma, a member of the 

 Eagle-down fraternity; Zuni Nick, a member of the Great Fire 

 fraternity; Tsi'nahe, a member of the Sword SwaUowers fraternity, 

 and his wife, a memljer of the Shu'maakwe, and others — to all these 

 she owes a debt of gratitude for their friendly interest and for their 

 earnest, conscientious, and voluntary aid. 



1 The association of plant medieines with animals has caused some students erroneotisly to believe that 

 these medicines are part of, or are prepared from, the animals or birds which bear their respective names. 



